"Oliver Twist," Charles Dickens` timeless classic about...

December 30, 1986|By Chris Rauser.

``Oliver Twist,`` Charles Dickens` timeless classic about the orphan boy raised in poverty who`s taken under wing by a benevolent country squire, makes its return engagement to television at 8 p.m. Tuesday on CBS-Ch. 2 with Richard Charles in the title role.

George C. Scott portrays the ruthless Fagin, a London tenement boarder, moneylender and fence who trains a gang of young pickpockets headed by Bill Sikes, portrayed by Tim Curry.

After fleeing the workhouse at age 9, Oliver undergoes a series of hardships and adventures with Fagin and his gang before ending up with the squire who, upon tracking young Oliver`s background to the orphanage, discovers the secret of the boy`s ancestry.